Maybe I'm not going into a tech career. Maybe I'm just learning coding on the side, because I'm old and retired, or have a hobbyist interest in it. And I need help because I can't understand something.

Coding is a cold and unpersonal profession because it has to be. There is no emotion in it. Your code doesn't care if there's 2 weeks of your sweat and hobbyist tears in it or if you whipped it up in 20 minutes out of boredom

But programming in general isn't about fun. It's about making it work. It doesn't care if you have problems or emotions, for all the computer cares you might aswell not exist. I think SO succeeds because it works with that. The only thing a computer respects is giving it exactly what it needs to do in the way you need it to do it.

Well yeah. It is. There's a reason tech has an inclusivity problem. It's a high pressure environment. Leaning on your analogy of earlier, you throw the baby into the snow because the entire planet is snow and there's no bonfire anywhere

The harsh reality of the world is that sometimes people need to realize that they don't have the chops for something. It's something that everyone has to learn eventually. Better early then after struggling through a degree

I care about what the efficiency a programming language could bring to human kind directly and indirectly. My ultimate goal for coding is not to cater my like of coding, nor because I am fond of problem solving. I code because I think I can make a useful product with it. 'Useful' when all thing considered.

I recently posted a question and soon after realized I shouldn't've posted it yet. It very quickly got a downvote and from what I know you shouldn't delete a downvoted question and repost it. What should I do in the future if I ever do this again?

@user202729 If you want to delete without a score of -3, there is a 48-hour waiting period after closure, after which the vote score criterion no longer applies, and the minimum rep to VTD decreases from 20k to 10k

@TylerH I think he'd be fine with it here, since his objective is to ensure blatantly off-topic questions are deleted as quickly as possible. In fact, if he comes across one, he deletes it immediately.

A couple weeks ago, I asked for help: How can we stop premature deletion?
And I got some fantastic responses. A big thanks to everyone who participated in that discussion - you're the reason I don't completely hate Meta Stack Overflow.
The big takeaways from that discussion were:
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What makes a quality anime question? I'm a pretty experienced user of multiple sites but I can totally understand the problem of the recent blog post when I think about asking a question on the Anime site with a concern for 'quality'. Obviously things like spelling and grammar matter, and being able to point out some specific details, but what else?

@JourneymanGeek that's a decent example but maybe one that should be discounted... you had help from one person (a moderator) and you are a well known moderator of another network site... how much similar luck would a true new network user have?

Too many questions from unlicensed series (reading/watching on questionable sites), and given that anime and manga originated from Japan, some scenes are like a needle in a haystack; only those who have read/watched themselves can answer them.

I wonder how much traffic a sub-site like Anime & Manga -> Anime & Manga Identification Requests would get

It's true though that identification requests are hard to reconcile with the point of SE sites in general, which is to make useful Q&As for other people... ID requests are pretty much always one-offs for the person asking

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